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Organizing Identity
SAGE Publications 2007; US$ 55.00This book makes a significant contribution to cultural economic approaches to organizational and economic life. Specifically it offers both a survey of the field, as well as a practical guide to doing 'cultural economy'. The text, which builds upon du Gay's earlier work, will engage with a range of debates from cultural studies, sociology, anthropology,... more...
Consumption and Identity at Work
SAGE Publications 1995; US$ 60.00The realms of consumption have typically been seen to be distinct from those of work and production. This book examines how contemporary rhetorics and discourses of organizational change are breaking down such distinctions - with significant implications for the construction of subjectivities and identities at work. In particular, Paul du Gay... more...
The Values of Bureaucracy
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 53.99The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play,... more...
In Praise of Bureaucracy
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 54.00In this provocative new study, Paul du Gay makes a compelling case for the continuing importance of bureaucracy. Taking inspiration from the work of Max Weber, du Gay launches a staunch defence of `the bureaucratic ethos' and highlights its continuing relevance to the achievement of social order and good government in liberal democratic societies.... more...
Cultural Economy
SAGE Publications 2002; US$ 64.00This series is dedicated to an understanding of `cultural studies' as an interdisciplinary project concerned with the analysis of meaning. It focuses attention on the importance of the contemporary `cultural turn' in forging a rethink of the centrality of `the cultural' and the articulation between the material and the symbolic. more...
Identity in Question
SAGE Publications 2009; US$ 55.00A collection of essays on identity and the self from some of the biggest names in social theory today. more...
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